{"id":168,"date":"2026-07-19T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T14:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2026-07-19T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T14:31:11","slug":"rt-by-chicagocontrar1-new-chicagos-frederick-douglass-academy-high-school-has-47-classrooms-built-to-serve-1008-kids-but-only-27-students-are-enrolled-there-and-the-school-empl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"\u200bRT by @ChicagoContrar1: NEW: Chicago\u2019s Frederick Douglass Academy High School has 47 classrooms built to serve 1,008 kids. But only 27 students are enrolled there. And the school employs 28 full-time staff. At 3% utilization, it is the emptiest big-city school in the country, according to Chicago Policy Center research. A few more facts about Douglass: \ud83d\udd18 100% of seniors are categorized as chronically absent, meaning they miss 10% or more of school days. \ud83d\udd18 No 11th grader could read or do math at grade level in SY23-24. \ud83d\udd18 The school cost $93,000 per student in SY23-24. In a school district where one-third of school buildings sit at least half empty, Douglass illustrates the consequences of poor facilities planning: fewer opportunities for students and higher costs for taxpayers. https:\/\/www.thelastward.org\/p\/chicago-is-home-to-the-emptiest-big\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW: Chicago\u2019s Frederick Douglass Academy High School has 47 classrooms built to serve 1,008 kids. <\/p>\n<p>But only 27 students are enrolled there. <\/p>\n<p>And the school employs 28 full-time staff.<\/p>\n<p>At 3% utilization, it is the emptiest big-city school in the country, according to Chicago Policy Center research.<\/p>\n<p>A few more facts about Douglass:<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd18 100% of seniors are categorized as chronically absent, meaning they miss 10% or more of school days.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd18 No 11th grader could read or do math at grade level in SY23-24.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd18 The school cost $93,000 per student in SY23-24.<\/p>\n<p>In a school district where one-third of school buildings sit at least half empty, Douglass illustrates the consequences of poor facilities planning: fewer opportunities for students and higher costs for taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastward.org\/p\/chicago-is-home-to-the-emptiest-big\">thelastward.org\/p\/chicago-is\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Link<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastward.org\/p\/chicago-is-home-to-the-emptiest-big\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/pic\/card_img%2F2078850020141395968%2F1VMydSCd%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3D800x419\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>Chicago is home to the emptiest big-city school in the nation<\/b><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just 27 students are enrolled at Frederick Douglass Academy, which was built to serve more than 1,000 kids.<\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelastward.org\/p\/chicago-is-home-to-the-emptiest-big\">thelastward.org<\/a><\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW: Chicago\u2019s Frederick Douglass Academy High School has 47 classrooms built to serve 1,008 kids. But only 27 students are enrolled there. And the school employs 28 full-time staff. At 3% utilization, it is the emptiest big-city school in the country, according to Chicago Policy Center research. A few more facts about Douglass: \ud83d\udd18 100% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnn-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}